[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Wladimir-Wolynsk - St Petersburg records

[Eduardo Kommers]

Dick, if I correctly understood, Wladimir-Wolynsk in its first 4 or 5 years 
just has BMD records available on microfilms? There is no online records 
available?

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I will try to answer some of your questions.  Others will be able to provide
 additional information.

 A second copy of Evangelical (Lutheran) parish register books was sent each
 year to the Consistory office in St. Petersburg.  LDS photographed these
 books to the end of 1885 and made them available on microfilms.  These
 microfilms were indexed and made available as a searchable index on the
 Odessa website http://www.odessa3.org/search.html  SGGEE has the
 Volhynia-only portion of the Odessa index on its website - tab Members 
Only,
 tab Genealogy Databases, tab St. Petersburg Consistory.  In addition, SGGEE
 indexed the Kiev and Podolia microfilms and added them to the St. 
Petersburg
 data.  Finally, SGGEE is also currently indexing post-1885 records for
 Rozyszcze parish (western Volhynia) from the archive in Warsaw and adding
 that to the mix.

 In summary, the SGGEE St. Petersburg Consistory database contains BMD data
 for all of Volhynia, Kiev, and Podolia to 1885 (with some years missing)
 plus Rozyszcze parish for some post-1885 years.

 Originally, Zhitomir parish covered all of Volhynia.  In 1862, the western
 part was split off to form Rozyszcze parish.  In 1870 another part of the
 original Zhitomir parish was split off to form Heimtal parish in the center
 of Volhynia.  In 1891 the western portion of Rozyszcze parish was split off
 to form Wladimir-Wolynsk parish.   The first 4 or 5 years of Wladimir
 records are available on microfilms.

 Dick Stein